Tag Archives: homoousion

Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 18 July 2019 by

When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared (1) that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and (2) that he is “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father, they probably did not … Continue reading →

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Trinity, Logic, and the Transcendence of Transcendence

Posted on 24 August 2017 by

Philosopher Dale Tuggy believes he has a decisive proof against the coherency of the catholic doctrine of the Trinity. It goes like this: God is a personal being, i.e., a self. By “self” is understood a being who is conscious, … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 6 March 2014 by

What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: What if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father?

Posted on 4 March 2014 by

What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there even be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the paralytic: And when he returned to … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Homoousion

Posted on 3 March 2014 by

Once a believer has fully grasped the decisive significance of homoousion, there can be no returning to a more “biblical” or more “historical” Jesus; for the only Jesus that was and is is the incarnate Son eternally begotten from the … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: Homoousion as Dogma

Posted on 28 February 2014 by

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by … Continue reading →

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Tuggy, Christ, and the Gospel of Mark (Part 2)

Posted on 21 December 2013 by

“My second question is, if meaning-making of the recorded texts is the actual intended reason for their recording, would reading the texts with such an interpretive frame bring one to the Trinity doctrine by default? Bishop John Shelby Spong, Marcus … Continue reading →

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